FUJINAMI WINS 3RD STRAIGHT MIDDLE SCHOOL TITLE

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MITO, Ibaraki (June 12) – Yuhi Fujinami won the boys 47kg crown to become the fourth wrestler in Japanese wrestling history to win three straight national middle school wrestling championships crowns.

Fujinami of Mie Prefecture follows Beijing Olympic silver medalist Tomohiro Matsunaga (Shizuoka, 1993-1995), Shinya Matsumoto (Kyoto, 1997-1999) and Hiroyuki Oda (2001-2003) onto the list of “three-peat” middle school champions.

In the girls' events, former judoka Masako Furuichi won the crown at 64kg and was named the outstanding girls wrestler of the tournament. Furuichi, who started wrestling in sixth grade, took second place her first year in the middle school tourney and then won last year.

Boys winners
38kg – Hirotaka Araki, Kumamoto
42kg – Taishi Narikuni, Tokyo
47kg – Yuhi Fujinami, Mie
53kg – Teppei Shin, Kanagawa
59kg – Yuji Tanabe, Osaka
66kg – Yajuro Yamazaki, Saitama
73kg – Shun Umehara, Shizuoka
85kg – Yasuteru Yamamoto, Shizuoka
110kg – Ryusei Sakata, Saitama

Girls winners
37kg – Hanako Sawa, Osaka
41kg – Kika Kagata, Tokyo
46kg – Miki Kawauchi, Osaka
52kg – Mayu Mukaida, Tokyo
58kg – Haruyo Kimura, Aomori
64kg – Masako Furuichi, Tokyo
70kg – Soju Tsuchihashi, Akita